Debate: This house believes that labour should be pain free

5.30 pm Registration

Chairs: Miss Chandrima Biswas, President, Forum on Maternity & the Newborn and Dr Nina Khazaezadeh, Consultant Midwife in Public Health, Women's Health Directorate Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital

For the motion

6.00 pm Proposing
Dr William Harrop-Griffiths, Consultant Anaesthetist, Imperial College NHS Trust, St Mary's Hospital London

6.20 pm Seconding
Lucy Jolin, Birth Trauma Association

Against the motion

6.40 pm Proposing
Professor Soo Downe, Director of ReaCH (Research in to Child Health) Unit, University of Lancashire

7.00 pm Seconding
Dr Mary Nolan, National Childbirth Trust

7.20 pm Debate

8.35 pm Close of meeting

For more information apply to Andrea Török
Academic Department, Royal Society of Medicine,
1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE
Tel: 020 7290 2986 Fax: 020 7290 2989
Email: maternity@rsm.ac.uk